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The male dives and booms (see Vocalization) in an effort to garner female attention; [4] [5] the female may be in flight herself or stationary on the ground. Copulation occurs when the pair settles on the ground together; the male with his rocking body, widespread tail wagging and bulging throat expresses guttural croaking sounds.
In flight as seen from below Ferruginous Hawk showing wings, tail, and dark legs, near Las Vegas, New Mexico Skull of a ferruginous hawk. The male and female have identical markings. The main difference is size, with the female being somewhat larger. Perched birds have a white breast and body with dark legs.
As for the northern goshawk, the smallest male is still usually "clearly" larger than most large female Cooper's hawks. [2] In the Goshutes mountains, migrant male goshawks overlapped with female Cooper's hawks only in the length of the tail and the tarsus, with the body mass especially being quite distinct. [41]
Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist.It is colloquially known as the grasshopper hawk or locust hawk, as it is very fond of Acrididae (locusts and grasshoppers) and will voraciously eat these insects whenever they are available.
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The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) or northern sharp-shinned hawk, commonly known as a sharpie, [2] is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as the tiny hawk.